This Osher Class will discuss how the homestead era in Kansas provided an environment for labor and farmer organization such as the Grange and Knights of Labor. The class will review the forgotten Cloud County town of Minersville, a coal mining community with a rich labor cooperative movement. Additionally, the class will examine how women helped change labor in America, including stories of Mother Jones, Frances Perkins, Lucy Parsons, Susan B. Anthony and other women past and present. Join local Manhattan educators: Greg Stephens, Tom Fleming, Debi Aaron, Dee Boyd, Bob Storer and Joan Ratzlaff as they present the heritage of workers in Kansas.

The first class is from 6:30 to 8:30 Wednesday, April 6, in the Community Room. The second and third classes are scheduled Wednesday, April 13, and Wednesday, April 20, at the same time and location as the first class.